Archive for October, 2005

News Bloggers Would be Protected by Shield Law

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005

Seems like people high up there are starting to realize that bloggers are regular people and that some of their work may be qualified as actual news reporting. Now, forget the fact that blogger’s have been reporting the news for a couple of years now, a new bill offers that some bloggers may “qualify as […]

WeblogsInc, A Multi-Million Success Story

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

Very inspirational, indeed. After rumors started flowing in last night about a possible deal between AOL and WeblogsInc for the sale of the successful blog network for around $25 Million. It’s been officially confirmed in an email correspondance between Duncan and Jason Calacanis.
Some people like to see this sale as an attempt for a “quick […]

AOL & SixApart Team Up to Improve Services for SixApart Blogs

Thursday, October 6th, 2005

AOL and SixApart have announced a partnership that will allow bloggers to add their AIM services into SixAparts LiveJournal and TypePad.
Under the new agreement, AOL will allow SixApart users to show their their presence status on their blogs and improve connectivity with other bloggers and readers.
With AIM Presence, you can display your availability on your […]

Adsense Dumped, Contact Direct

Saturday, October 1st, 2005

Graywolf is fed up with Google’s site targeting option and is dumping Adsense. He is offering advertisers which currently target his blog to contact him directly (which makes a lot of sense).
I will be removing Google Adsense from this blog this week. If you had previously used site targeting to get your ads to appear […]